This week's SDT episode went somewhere I didn't expect — we ended up in a pretty honest conversation about whether AI coding tools are actually making things better or just moving the risk around. Claude Code got leaked, there's a supply chain attack on Axios, and Coté is seriously considering abandoning his Gmail account after 20+ years. Meanwhile, The Reasoning Show is talking to Zendesk about AI that actually fixes customer issues end-to-end. All feels very "we are building the thing that breaks the thing."

From the Network

The Reasoning Show — The Future of Service Belongs to Self-Improving AI Shashi Upadhyay from Zendesk joins Brian to talk about AI moving from "systems of record to systems of action" — agentic AI that resolves customer issues end-to-end instead of just escalating to a human. Worth a listen if you're thinking about where support automation is actually going.

Software Defined Talk — Episode 566: The Code Is Actually Kinda Useless We dug into the Claude Code leak, what it means to secure AI coding agents, and an Axios supply chain attack that should make anyone nervous. Also: Coté is maybe done with Gmail, and honestly I get it.

The Cloud Pod — Episode 348: Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscription Justin and the crew work through the latest from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Anthropic, and Microsoft. The title alone earns a listen — compliance theater as a service is very real and very funny.

Podcast of the Week

The Talk Show — Apple at 50, With John Siracusa Apple turns 50 this week, and who better to look back than John Gruber and his guest John Siracusa. They go deep on the Snow White design era, the original Mac, and what Apple's first five decades actually meant. Good history for anyone who's been around long enough to remember when "Think Different" was new.

Non-Tech Pod of the Week

Search Engine — The Trial of the Driverless Car PJ Vogt goes to Boston, where the fight over autonomous vehicles has surfaced a genuinely thorny political triangle: labor unions, disability advocates, and big tech — all with legitimate stakes, all pointing in different directions. It's one of those stories where the more you understand each side's position, the harder it gets to pick one. Classic Search Engine.

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